I have had 0% on all abilities since abilities have been implemented. This means -5 and -10 on the general abilities, and -1 and -3 on the faction abilities. Is this normal? Before the last Revelation day, I lost the ability to collect from my spam viruses. Is my situation a bug or feature?

The "negative" amounts are the price to upgrade that ability by 1%. You only gain faction standing (and ability points) by completing faction missions. That means Recover Codes and Search and Destroy. Deletes and other missions do not count.

Before the last Revelation day, I lost the ability to collect from my spam viruses. Is my situation a bug or feature?

you didnt lose the ability to collect from them you were collecting from them but the money was being taken from your own account.

if you put your virii on any server except your own then you should notice an increase in cash when collecting. if you put your virii on another players server then you will only gain money if that player has any money to take.

hey can anyone tell me how to increase ur faction standing ? i mean wat i gotta do ?

Secret Faction Missions available at your chosen faction's secret servers. You will need some better software than the beginner stuff, however, especially for the Seek and Destroy missions. You will receive HPD, AP, and some faction standing upon successful completion. You will also lose standing with the targeted faction.

hey can anyone tell me how to increase ur faction standing ? i mean wat i gotta do ?

Basit,

First thing you need to do is click on the [Factions Info] button on the left side. Make sure that you have selected the faction you want to work for. If I recall correctly, new players start with no faction selected. New players start out as True Light. (Thanks Tri).

Once you have selected a faction. Click on the [IP Database] button on the left side. Across the top of the new page you will see several buttons.

[All Servers] [Public] [Secret] etc...

Choose the one that says [Faction]

Hopefully you will a list of IP addresses and server names. You should notice that these also have an orange tag to the right of their name with the word (faction) in parens. These indicate that they are your faction servers. If you do not have any IP addy's of your faction, message me in game and I'll send a couple (let me know what faction you chose).

Okay. Now that you know your faction servers, click on the [Connect] button next to one of them.

At the bottom of the newly connected server you will see a nice red button with the words [Secret Faction Board].

Click on that.

You will now be presented with 0-5 missions. Depending on if they have already been completed in the last 45 minutes or so, you may not see any at all.

If you do, click on Review, make sure your software is high enough to complete the mission and then accept if it is. Then follow the instructions on completing the missions.

If you notice that missions being gone frequently or you are unable to finish them before someone else, you may wish to switch factions and try another one. Note: you can only switch factions once per day.